#arachnomorphs

[ntls-24722]

apologies lg tv community. ya boy was without wifi for awhile

This is honestly not the best sketch but this is the clowntroupe i mentioned before. i promise they have swag clothes and stuff, but i really ust wanted to digitalize something of them that wasn't super outdated (even though im noticing a bajillion mistakes in this already)

there's this, but their hands have been restructures and i don't like how i made the pedipalps. my nitpicky nature will be the death of me

They're all outcasts from their original societies, with the mantis escaping their civilization for their own sake (unlike the arachnomorphs, sexual cannibalism is both permittted and expected in mantis society), the arachnomorph running from their role as a prince, and the nautilus one... is really just a nerd and came along to learn about the surface world.

wasn't able to illustrate this, but they also ride on the back of the mantis AND the arachnomorphs' most fearsome predator, the winterbeetle. They're both in their bronze age, and are still being actively predated upon.

While the winterbeetles are mostly carnivorous, their ancestors were herbivores and the winterbeetle is able to still eat and digest plant matter. The clowntroupe has raised their steed to be vegan, for their own safety.

Genuine apologies for the quality on these guys' parts, it's come to my realization how underdeveloped this world was and how unhappy I am with the art i've made for them thus far, especially with how i lost traction and motivation a good halfway through the first doodle. I wanted to get something out for these guys today but this really wasn't it :(. Maybe tomorrow's doodles can turn out better

But on the bright side there were these DJ doodles I was able to make yesterday that I'm actually proud of! I tried to draw him as close to canon as I could (excluding the lips... djmm's donut lips don't feel right for me to draw 💀. I left the bottom lip though, since it's pretty close to the original and are kind of like how actual clowns have the bottom lip painted)

DJ being mute honestly makes a story with itself which is kind of perfect

He can't outright speak for himself other than very specific sound effects, and his face canonically has no moving parts other than his mouth, so you can't even tell what he's thinking or feeling behind those big, unblinking, soulless eyes.

Having to make very big gestures and actions make him even more expressionate than usual, but in times where he lets up his game of constant charades, he become spooky as hell, now that you can't tell what his intentions are.

honestly, there's a gazillion stories to be made just off that alone, like him desperately trying to inform the rest of the SB gang that there is danger swiftly incoming with not a soul having any clue what he's saying, or harsh, decisions he had to make without him being able to explain why, with the reason behind it only being revealed later on.

There's also the thought that in the one medium he's able to directly speak his mind he pours his soul into it and is unnervingly way more verbose than anyone would've thought he was. DJ's just cool like that

[om0000]

[astaldis]

May I proudly present -

My Witcher Monster MAYhem Masterlist:

Geraskier fic:

A Lesson in Prudence

"Jaskier, don't open the ...!" Geralt shouts, but it is already too late. The cast iron padlock still in his hands, Jaskier's eyes grow wide as the heavy wooden lid rises an inch by itself. Then, many tiny fingers sneak through the gap. The lid lifts several more inches into the air ...

Jaskier spends some time at Kaer Morhen. Being his usual curious self, of course, he gets into trouble and Geralt has to save his bard. (words: 854) (Jaskier Angst)

Prompts: Day 1 "Don't open the ...", Day 3 "Tiny monsters", "Pointy Teeth" and Day 7 "Isn't it cute?"

Kaer Morhen Witcher fic:

Die, Monster, Die

"Die, you mother-fucking monster! Will you finally die?" Lambert roars, yet the monster seems to have other plans. For the umpteenth time it reassembles its scattered fragments and attacks again. Damn!

While the "Girls" are not at home, the Witchers are attacked by a very strange monster, one they have never encountered, heard of or read of before. A monster that stubbornly refuses to die. (words: 1,623) (Lambert Whump, Friendship)

Prompt: Day 6 "Die, Monster, Die"

Cahir/Gallatin fic:

Yet Another Save

Finally spring has come and Gallatin is out hunting. Alone. Not a good idea in these times of contempt ... (words: 2,689) (Gallatin Whump, Friendship)

Prompt: Day 3 "Necrophage"

Hansa fics:

Smelly Goo Loves Company (or: Lucky that the bard brought plenty of soap)

While collecting firewood, Angoulême has an encounter with a creature that could easily have gone wrong. Fortunately, she is not alone. (words: 847) (Adventure, Friendship)

Prompts: Day 1 "Paralysed", Day 2 "Run!", Day 5 "Swamp Monster" 

Something In The Water:

It is spring and Milva wants to have a bath. Yet, something goes terribly wrong. Lucky that she has her Hanza, and especially one Emiel Regis Rohellec Terzieff-Godefroy. (words: 1,875) (Milva Whump, Friendship)

Prompts: Day 2 "Bulging Eyes", Day 3 "Necrophage", Day 5 "Fuck, there's another one" and Day 6 "Surrounded"

Not A Good Place To Stay The Night ...

Forced off the main road south by advancing Nilfgaardian troops, Geralt and his weird company find themselves inside a dark, eerie forest, and night is falling soon. (words: 5,530) (Cahir Whump, Friendship)

Warning: Better do not read if you are afraid of spiders!

Prompts: Day 1 "Paralysed", Day 2 "Vampire", Day 4 "Hairy Legs" & Picture prompt, Day 5 "Too Many Limbs", Day 7 "Creepy Crawlies", Alt. "Bat out of Hell"

What would you do if ...?

One day in the fairytale Duchy of Toussaint, while Anarietta and Fringilla have to attend the bachelorette party of a relative, all the members of Geralt's Hansa are spending a rare evening together in the kitchen of Beauclair Castle, playing games and having fun. Well, at least some of them are having fun. (words: 666) (crackfic)

Alt. prompt: "Flying Spaghetti Monster"

This Is Not A Chicken Egg!

On their travels through Riverdell, Jaskier finds a strange egg. It is just about to hatch, but what the hell is it? And what the fuck does it have to do with Emhyr var Emreis? (words: 1,356) (crackfic, Pikachu/Emhyr mentioned)

Prompts: Day 3 "Tiny Monsters" and Day 7 "Isn't it cute?"

Pikachu/Emhyr fics:

Electrical Attraction

Emhyr's sexuality is a very secret secret that not even Dijkstra has been able to uncover. Maybe it is better for the spy master's mental health that he hasn't. Caution: Mental health hazard. Uncover Emhyr's most secret secret at your own risk. (words: 100) (crackfic)

Prompt: Day 2 "My Beloved Monster"

A Weighty Decision

Ciri and Emhyr have to make a weighty decision that might forever change the fate of the Empire. For the better or worse? Who knows ... (words: 600) (crackfic)

Prompt: Day 7 (lyrics) "Cheerful, cheerful/Furry, happy monsters feeling glad"

Witcher Geralt fic:

A Pet For The Witcher

Geralt happens upon an old acquaintance of his who is doing something he does not like - at all. He does, however, like a lot what comes of this unexpected reunion.

Prompt: Day 4 "Were-"

[faecaptainofdreams]

My graphic head canon for arachnomorphs is live! :D

[stuckinuniformdevelopment]

Ugh. I'm always the one stuck collecting acid samples. "But Teddy, you're the only one who knows how to handle a gun! It's too dangerous for any of us to do it!"

If only there was a way to fix that problem, hm. Too bad we don't have willing instructors and a shooting range.

[tailorgiuseppe]

Goodness.. I have been so busy.. I am proud to announce that I have perfected my anti-arachnomorph protest shirts!

[eyeballcommander]

So you hate kids on the warship, understandable. What if Captain Tim has kids though, or even Lord Hater himself, the two who outrank you? Can you even do anything about that?

No, no I cannot. But one's a worst case scenario and the other is biologically impossible.

[orenogazou]

[sillywoyscreenshots]

How about that scene of Hater constantly anticipating Captain Tim will rescue him from the queen arachnomorph? And a perfectly cut scream from Watchdog Tim for good measure... Hehe!

[cloudydayjoy]

The CAPT Project (which is a project focused on making arachnomorph acid proof uniforms) is going as well as ever...

[monsterfuckerconfessions]

for a while now ive has this huge Thing for some of the monsters from tw3.... i can't play without soaking my briefs sometimes 🙈

i wanna be spit roasted on freezing cold drowner ovipositors. or gangbanged by a feral pack of tiny nekkers, so small they can easily fit three ridged cocks at a time in my tight cunt. or be an alghoul's free use mate and be stuck constantly on fat slimy ghoul dick. or tied naked to the bow of a skellige ship to occupy the sirens' mouths and keep them distracted. or fucked by an invisible foglet while his invisible friends rim my ass and choke me on their tongue. or tied up in an arachnomorph's webbing deep in their cave with only a whole cut out for breeding.

basically, if it's a pack monster, my legs are spread and my pussyheart is open 🤤

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[ntls-24722]

I DIDN'T POST ABOUT THESE BEFORE???

Hi sorry for not posting for like 2 days, i was not. feelin it

ANYWAYS YEA THE ARACHNOMORPHS THE MANTIDMORPHS AND the nautilus people.

i wanted to make a weird little like, world? of music men? less as a "djmm-verse" like i've done thus far but a specific universe where he's more of a species? I made 3 - originally it was going to be where there would be the arachnomorphs (mix of MM and DJMM,) mantis people to represent MM, and giant crab things that represent DJMM. Weirdly enough, the crab thing never took off - they became mollusks instead?

But here's the mantidmorphs,

And the arachnomorphs, the most developed out of the 3.

It was supposed to kind of be this speculative evolution thing, but the designs came before the worldbuilding and that leads to a lot of problems.

Like, the world that i developed afterwards essentially goes that on earth, a billion years later after some extreme extinction event, invertebrates take over the world because a specific bug was able to grow absolutely MASSIVE, not due to oxygen increases but by developing a new kind of exoskeleton that was less draining energywise - an exoskeleton that didnt need to be molted from and would grow along with the body. And That Bug was the one that mantidmorphs and arachnomorphs evolved from, but that leads to weird problems. Like, how come the arachnomorph has 4 pairs of arms instead of 3 like literally everything else? And how come spiders and mantises just re-evolved?

I'm kind of at a crossroads because I REFUSE to change the arachnomorph's design because look at this thing, this is perfection,

so it's either I'm going to have to adapt the whole world to allow this or I'm scrapping the previous lore to be less realistic/more of a fantasy world and making a whole new world and trying again, and i'm more leaned toward the latter

I feel like it's important to add that there is a clown troupe with one member of all 3 of these species. it's a polycule

[pokamocha]

So I was rewatching WOY again, and I realized something during The Ball episode (S1 Ep13b).

There’s probably a post somewhere years ago pointing this out, but idc—I want to, "put that passion on the paper!"

Spoilers btw!

We all know why Wander helps, “The helper seeks to help because he knows what it is like to be helpless” (The Wanders, S2 Ep4a). He went through something so life-changing—most likely traumatic—that it ironically helped him become the Wander we know and love.

Now during The Ball episode (S1 Ep13b) after Beeza explains how this doomsday is basically routine at this point and before they all board the ship, Wander gives a speech:

“Y'all have put so much work into this pretty little planet. Don't you want to try and save it? I know you're scared of Buster, but if you keep running, that's all you're ever gonna be doing! You have a chance to change that. You just have to turn and face your problems head-on!”

“…but if you keep running, that's all you're ever gonna be doing! You have a chance to change that.”

He says that while looking at his hat longingly as if this situation reminded him of a bad memory.

I genuinely believe Wander started out as fearful.

I believe he ran away and hid at the first sign of danger when he was much younger, immature and inexperienced because he didn’t have a chance to save or defend what he had. He lost something very dear and precious to him—whether that be his family or his home-planet (or both), we may never know.

However, how he reacted to those bouncing phantom mimes in The Heebie Jeebies episode (S2 Ep19b) proves my point. Wander’s first instinct when encountering danger or something scary is to scream, run away and/or hide—and at times freeze in place.

Usually he’s able to override that stress response throughout the show if there’s someone needing help, “When I see someone who’s a-needin’, I just gotta help!” (The Fugitives, S1 Ep2b). Take the episode The Pet (S1 Ep4) as an example of this.

Wander nervously searches the ship for anyone alive only to encounter an arachnomorph he lovingly christened Captain Tim. His first reaction is to scream, and it doesn’t sound like an excited scream either.

Only after he gets tackled does he collect himself and switches gears from being afraid to being ready to help because he changed how he looked at the creature.

At first, he saw Captain Tim as this terrifying monster (he even admits to Sylvia that he knew Captain Tim is dangerous later in the episode, twice) before almost immediately doing a 180 degree and choosing to see Captain Tim as an abandoned pet that needs tender love and care.

It's not just this episode either. The Greatest (S1 Ep1a) shows how scared he is of Lord Hater when they first officially meet until he chooses to—not only help the planet's residences—but to also learn more about Hater so he can help him later down the line.

The Search for Captain Tim (S2 Ep19a) is another example when he shows up with a wanted flyer knowing full well that the creature is carnivorous and remembering what Captain Tim tried to do to him.

It’s even more apparent during the last episode of season 2, The End of the Galaxy, where Wander is terrified of Lord Dominator yet tries to continue befriending her despite his fear and despite what she says and does.

He's able to get through his fear if it means helping someone in the process.

We also know that Wander seems obsessed with the idea of helping others to an alarming and unhealthy degree. Being unable to not help someone in need gives him anxiety that builds up over a short amount of time until he can’t take it anymore and gives into his immense desire to help (The Fugitives, S1 Ep2b).

Even when he was sick during The Sick Day (S2 Ep20a), he still tries to help when it impedes on his own health and well-being.

Since he’s over 1000 years old, he most likely lost that chance to rewrite or make amends with what he originally went through that made him feel helpless in the first place—and I wouldn’t doubt it if he regrets it deep down or thinks bringing up his past is unimportant since nothing can be done anymore.

Heck, Sylvia calls him, “a man of mystery,” in The Waste of Time (S2 Ep17b) which later when they both successfully end the time loop it erases that interaction from existence. Wander doesn't disclose what exactly happened to him to be helpless in The Wanders (S2 Ep4a).

He chooses not to go into detail about his past.

Going back to The Ball (S1 13b) episode, he doesn’t just give a speech and tries to help because that's the right thing to do. He tries to help because he sees how the Ballzarians were choosing to lose their chance by willfully fleeing from their home-planets because of Buster, and Wander could not accept that.

"Whew! I wouldn't want someone else to go through what I went through" (The Wanders, S2 Ep4a).

He needed to help them because he himself was not helped.

Having to watch someone else go through the same experience was devastating for him. That's why he took control of the ship and crashed landed it on Buster.

Unlike the Ballzarians, I believe he did not have anyone in his life to help him when he was helpless, nor provide the opportunity to make a change in his circumstances.

He had to become his own helper.

In The Wanders episode (S2 Ep4a) when Sylvia finds the last Wander to complete himself again, the little Wander is terrified and cowering in the corner. He doesn't trust her until she reassures him, "It's okay, I won't hurt you." This reaction from Wander only makes sense if he was used to not receiving help.

Now, I’m sure as Wander helped others, they helped him back (some probably didn’t and took advantage of him). However, Sylvia was the first person who—not only reciprocated that same love and care he tends to show towards everyone—but also the first person to stay by his side afterwards. She became his new home.

We know how the two met in The Waste of Time (S2 Ep17b), but we don’t know how they became enemies to best friends. But, I genuinely believe Wander’s kindness played a part in softening Sylvia’s heart.

With all this said, I believe he started out as a coward, then became a stereotypical hero, until finally being transformed into the wandering helpy helperson we know and love today.

Or I'm reading waaaaaaay too much into a silly little cartoon about helping others and self-improvement from a decade ago idk tHat’S jUst a tHeoRY lmao

Anyways, thank y’all for coming to my TedTalk—expect more WOY art in the near future! 👋🧡

[bracketsoffear]

Web Redemption Bracket Round 1

Spiders-Man vs. Charlotte

Darlene the Arachnomorph vs. Starlight Glimmer

Reginald Jeeves vs. Miranda Priestley

Savathûn, the Witch Queen vs. Legato Bluesummers

Logan Roy vs. Nate Ford

Drosselmeyer vs. the SQUIP

Ledroptha Curtain vs. Cabinet Man

Donquixote Doflamingo vs. Katz

[monarchofmayhem]

YOU FOUND MY BO- I mean, that's cool. Totally knew where he was.

Now tell me which bathroom he's in OR ELSE!!!

HELP CAPTAIN TIM JUST CRAWLED OUT FROM THE TOILET I WAS CLEANING AND TRIED TO CLAW MY FACE OFF WTF

@monarchofmayhem COME AND GET YOUR DOG

[tailorgiuseppe]

Guess who is a-back from his vacation! How I’ve missed my beautiful, lovely, arachnomorph free workshop…